Bill, you shock me into thinking you're one of those armchair jurists who believe "if he was arrested, he must be guilty". The fact that Bill Allen told FBI investigators early on that Stevens would likely have paid for the work if he had been invoiced, along with Stevens' own legal statements that he believed he paid for whatever work was done - since there were original invoices, seems to distract you. The bottom line in this case is Allen is still trying to keep himself an his son out of jail by rolling over on anybody he could. He's the crook here, admittedly so, and should spend the rest of his days behind bars.

I look at it this way. It's like a drug pusher. He gets charged with selling crack to someone. We all know it, everyone knows it, he's been doing it for years. He's a drug pusher. But this one time they think they finally got the goods on him, and they might turn out to be wrong, on some technicality like "plausible deniability", and he gets off.

Does that mean he's not a drug pusher?

Ted Stevens is entrenched in the network. We all know it, everyone knows it, he's been doing it for years.

Yeah, looks like they screwed this one up and he might get a mistrial. Damn shame too.

my dad said over 40 years ago that ted was an honest man and smart..i will believe that and vote for him because we all should be innocent until proven guilty..and prosecution tried to cheat more than once.

According to the last remodeling contractor, Paone, Stevens overpaid what the remodeling should have cost by 10% to 20%. Can't help it if VECO was both incompetent and crooked. If there is a legal problem with Stevens, the prosecution's case for the house remodel hasn't made it. However, the prosecution appears to be quilty of seriously misleading statements, like "not one penny" when Stevens shelled out $160,000. Personally, DoJ's opinions don't seem worth a farthing.